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The good news: In 1998, the tobacco industry was ordered to pay more than $240 billion over 25 years as part of a master settlement to help pay past and future health-care costs related to tobacco products.
The bad news: In its fourth State of Tobacco Control Report, released in January, the American Lung Association gave [...]
If you’ve ever thought about taking up golf, May is the month. Why? Because the PGA is offering free 10-minute lessons during May to help you get started (or, if you’re already a golfer, to improve your game).
To sign up for a free lesson, go to http://www.playgolfamerica.com/.
Golf is a great sport for all ages, says [...]
Research has documented the benefits of exercise in reducing anxiety and depression, raising self-esteeem and improving mood. To Oscar Morgan, that makes perfect sense. “Mental wellness is about body and mind,” says Morgan, chief operating officer to the National Mental Health Association (NMHA). “We need to take care of our bodies to have a healthy [...]
We all know the damage the sun’s ultraviolet rays can do when our skin is exposed too long to them: a sunburn at best, and basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma and other skin cancers at worst.
Lighter-skinned people are more prone to sun damage. Doctors divide skin types into six categories, with recommendations for SPF [...]
The word ‘cancer’ is Latin for crab. By the turn of the 20th Century it was not a matter of whether infectious disease caused cancer, but which one. The Journal of the American Medical Association, (JAMA) in “Is Cancer of Infectious Nature?”, concluded “a very strong case in favor of his view of the infectious cause of cancer in general.” Just how was this mind set altered, and then totally submerged?
Orthodontists can now display patient records on chair-side computer systems